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...five weeks, Judge Chester R. Shook of Cincinnati, and a jury of ten men and two women, listened to stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, attorney, defend stout, baldheaded raucous George Remus, accused of murder. The two Messrs. Remus were physically one-and-the-same man, but Judge Shook was impotent to prevent them from acting as separate entities in his courtroom, where they convinced the jury that still a third stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus had committed the murder...
...third Mr. Remus was said to be the second Mr. Remus while insane, i. e. "beside himself", with jealousy, fear and indignation. The first Mr. Remus (attorney) explained that the second Mr. Remus (defendant) had been cuckolded, and his life plotted against, while he was serving a penitentiary term for bootlegging. One Franklin L. Dodge, onetime Prohibition agent, was named as cuckoldor. Attorney Remus argued that Defendant Remus had become Murderer Remus by unbearable provocation from Mr. Dodge and Mrs. Remus and that Defendant Remus had, therefore, been made not only a millionaire but also a martyr by Prohibition...
Prosecutor Taft made a reference to 'Legger Remus' disbarment as a lawyer in Illinois. 'Legger Remus interrupted: "That is a nice statement by the son of the Chief Justice, if the court please. ... He knows that only the record is admissible in this court of law or in any other court of law, not alone in this country but in the Supreme Court of which this young man's father is the Lord High Chief Justice. And it has been the pleasure of this defendant to appear before that High Chief Justice! But the performance given...
...Five hundred judges and members of the Chicago bar have volunteered to come down here as character witnesses," 'Legger Remus shrieked. "And just because the son of the Chief Justice in this wonderful United States makes that kind of an assertion-Man, if I had you in the corridor I would WRECK you physically...
Prosecutor Taft, towering "offshoot," scowled. The sheriff quieted 'Legger Remus. The trial continued...